proposed sqlite3 transition

2007-12-25 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi all, With the upload of sqlite3 3.5.4 to experimental, I would like to ask everyone who build depend on SQLite3, please test it as its inner is changed a lot. Should be fine for the outer side, but please read the details[1]. I could compile several packages against it, but not being user of th

Re: -Wl,--as-needed considered possibly harmful

2007-12-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:55:32AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:44:19 -0800 > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Consider two libraries, libfoo and libbar. libfoo depends on libbar, > > references functions from it and uses some of libbar's types in its own > >

Re: DOAP files

2007-12-25 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 02:50:32AM +0100, Luca Brivio wrote: 1) Should we include DOAP files from upstream in packages? (always?) I think it's a good idea. 2) If so, where? (usr/share/doc sounds OK if they are only provided for sake of completeness, while IMVHO if we want them to be globally

Re: Which spell checkers to include by default?

2007-12-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:17:52 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [Manoj Srivastava] >> Are these packages a drop in replacement for ispell? > None of the spell checkers are drop in replacements for the others. > Each program need to have support for ispell, aspell, myspell an

DOAP files

2007-12-25 Thread Luca Brivio
Hi developers, While I'm packaging morla[1], I've found in the tarball tree a little XML file named "doap.rdf", which turned out to be a DOAP[2][3] file. An apt-file query (on 'sid', i386) showed me that there are at least three packages which install such files: flumotion: usr/share/doc/flumo

Re: Bug#457778: ITP: blm -- compute set operations on line-oriented files: and, or, xor, and more.

2007-12-25 Thread Robert Edmonds
On 2007-12-25, Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Package name: blm > Description : compute set operations on line-oriented files: and, or, > xor, and more. What are the time and space complexities for the various operations? -- Robert Edmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 05:54:32PM +, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: >> I fail to understand this ITP, and all the objections - wether >> or not we SHOULD is not the point as I see it. It's a matter >> of CAN we.. ? > Well I see points where we have to

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 05:40:33PM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 05:54:32PM +, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > I fail to understand this ITP, and all the objections - wether > > or not we SHOULD is not the point as I see it. It's a matter > > of CAN we.. ? > > Well I

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-25 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 05:54:32PM +, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > I fail to understand this ITP, and all the objections - wether > or not we SHOULD is not the point as I see it. It's a matter > of CAN we.. ? Well I see points where we have to ask if we _should_ support some kind of software,

Bug#457778: ITP: blm -- compute set operations on line-oriented files: and, or, xor, and more.

2007-12-25 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: blm Version : 0.9.0 Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cilibrar.com/~cilibrar/projsup/blm-0.9.0.tar.gz * License : BSD Programming Lang

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
On lun, 2007-12-24 at 07:29 +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > You should really get your facts straigt before feeding the FUD! Please don’t scare us like that! I first thought that Jörg Schilling was back on the list. > Qmail is the most secure MTA out there. It's slick, and quite well > written

Re: New field in binary stanza

2007-12-25 Thread Enrico Zini
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 11:47:59AM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > What about debtags? Wouldn't this be most appropriate? > - It's optional. > - It's available from the apt-cache. > - No need to change dpkg, policy, etc. Please see http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/faq.html#any-reason-why-ther

Re: Making contributing to Debian easier ; "gift" bug tag

2007-12-25 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 10:46:11PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > I agree this would be a really cool thing but it can be > really hard to judge what is suitable for new contributors > and what not, some people understand things pretty fast > others do not and thus you could lose the chance to get

Re: New field in binary stanza

2007-12-25 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 06:52:12PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Anyway, I'm seeing that what I'm telling now has already been proposed for > debian/copyright. The problem is still there though: the chance to see some > information about the license of not installed packages not being > connected

Re: New field in binary stanza

2007-12-25 Thread Enrico Zini
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 06:39:22PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Maybe the related question is: once the debian/copyright format is > widespread enough, how can we make such an information available > archive-wide mechanically? Easy: apt-xapian-index. It works like this: 1. Define what ki

Re: Proposalto introduce compiler options passed from dpkg-buildpackage

2007-12-25 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Matthias Klose wrote: > This is a proposal to introduce a common set of compiler options which > can be set independently from the package, and passed/injected to the > package build process. It was first discussed at the last UDS; a > corresponding wiki page can be found at [1]. A change like th

Re: Which spell checkers to include by default?

2007-12-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Manoj Srivastava] > Are these packages a drop in replacement for ispell? None of the spell checkers are drop in replacements for the others. Each program need to have support for ispell, aspell, myspell and/or hunspell. This is why I want us to try to get as many packages as possible to switc

Re: New field in binary stanza

2007-12-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 06:52:12PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > First of all, thank you for the kind reply. It seemed like the > Christmas spirit has been blown away from this list. Thank you for noticing, I still hope that exchanges like this have the power of improving in the long run the debat

Re: New field in binary stanza

2007-12-25 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:47:59 +0100 Michael Tautschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > What about debtags? Wouldn't this be most appropriate? > - It's optional. > - It's available from the apt-cache. > - No need to change dpkg, policy, etc. This might be a solution. Something like license

Re: New field in binary stanza

2007-12-25 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > I understand your need, but in this case (as opposed to the others you > > mention) I believe a new field is not the right solution. The reason is > > that in the general case too many information would need to be encoded > > in such a field; that's why a machine interpretable copyright